Leadership Development Programs

Our leadership program powers professionals at all career trajectories and include participants from a wide range of industries and sectors, including the arts, education, energy, finance, healthcare, IT, legal, life sciences, manufacturing, philanthropy, retail, transportation and many more.

Select your career level to find the right program for you.

Early Career Associates

Developed for professionals at the start of their journey, this program focuses on career growth and building leadership capabilities.

Designed for professionals with three to five years of workforce experience, including Millennials, the Early Career Program (formerly known as the Associates Program) helps you develop the insight to make you more effective in an organizational culture with multi-generational leadership. As you develop a critical framework around your emotional intelligence, you will learn the importance of efficacy, how to build your brand within a social environment, and how to successfully communicate across a global and diverse marketplace.

Program features:

A full year of monthly all-day sessions aimed at developing leadership and professional awareness, led by a dynamic and esteemed faculty.

Work with smaller cohorts that provides support and ongoing feedback on key development opportunities.

Access to a national, cross-industry network of peers and opinion leaders.

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Mid-Career Fellows

Created for mid-level career professionals, this program helps you expand your leadership capabilities and establish greater executive presence.

Aimed at managers with more than five years of experience, the Mid-Career Program (formerly known as the Fellows Program) focuses on three core competencies: leadership, relationship, and organizational skills. We place a key emphasis on refining and expanding the negotiation skills you need to influence your organization more effectively. Myers Briggs and 360 evaluations allow you to understand perceptions, competencies, and opportunities in order to achieve consistent high quality outcomes.

Program features:

A full year of monthly all-day sessions that focus on pertinent leadership topics, led by a dynamic and esteemed faculty.

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Mid-Career BioDiversity Fellows

New in 2016 is the BioDiversity Fellows Program – specific to the life sciences industry – that has been developed for Director, Associate Director and Senior Manager level professionals who are on a leadership career track.

The BioDiversity Fellows Program will help professionals expand their leadership capabilities and establish greater executive presence. Similar to The Partnership’s Mid-Career Fellows Program, BioDiversity also focuses on three core competencies: leadership, relationship building and organizational skills. Myers Briggs and emotional intelligence evaluations will allow participants to understand perceptions, competencies, and opportunities in order to achieve consistent high quality outcomes.

Program features:

Unique to this program, participants will each be assigned an executive coach.

The program is rigorously focused on leadership skills that will advance careers in the life science industry. Participants meet monthly January – December.

Monthly program topics include: Empowering Your Development, Transforming from a Technical to a Strategic Leader, Effectively Building Your Professional and Organizational Network, Defining Your Leadership and Professional Brand and Leading with Fluency: Leveraging Cultural Capital to Unleash Innovation and Growth.

Participants will also have an opportunity to work in cohorts on a community project that they will design and implement.

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Next Generation Executive

Designed for multicultural talent ready for the next step in their careers, this program prepares you to act and think like a senior executive.

Our experiential, peer-supported curriculum – taught by academics and industry leaders, including some of the world’s top strategists on culture, identity, race, and innovation – provides you with the strategic and interpersonal tools needed to accelerate your executive career. Balancing theory with practical know-how in areas such as innovation, global markets, and organizational change, this program will help you develop a new multicultural framework for leadership.

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C-Suite

Open to individuals at the C-Suite levels of their organizations, this program is your link to a powerful network of top multicultural leaders.

The C-Suite Program is your link to top multicultural leaders. Designed for individuals at the highest levels of their organizations, it brings together corporate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Suite management committee executives, as well as leaders from government, academia, and the civic sector. The program is centered around quarterly convenings that foster personal and professional relationships, and encourage dialogue and action on the critical issues impacting the urban community. It’s a unique opportunity to learn from your peers and some of the region’s most noteworthy thought leaders, make a difference in your community, as well as mentor the next generation of multicultural leaders.

Program features:

Quarterly convenings featuring nationally-recognized guests such as Ann Fudge, former Chairman and CEO of Young and Rubicam Brands, former White House Advisor David Axelrod, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and First Lady Diane Patrick.

Networking with both seasoned multicultural leaders as well as executives new to the region.

Sharing best practices and new strategies with exceptional multicultural leaders.